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    Yacht Time Correction YTC rule

    Good! Byron was a really useful resource in an area that the RYA had neglected but the problem was it relied on one person and donations to expedite Which wasn’t great for people entering regattas. Also over time, different clubs’ PY numbers had diverged If you google SWYTC you can see...
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    Yacht Time Correction YTC rule

    Byron didn’t become YTC. YTC was created at Mylor Yacht Club as an alternative to Byron from some rather complex maths from a club in Chichester I think that sought to reverse engineer a formula from PY numbers that were already in existence. The idea was to come up with a simpler and more...
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    LightHouse or Navionics

    Sounds good. Tried and it says retrieving data and then timed out despite good WiFi. I think I will delete the charts and download again to the SD card. Weird that it’s fine for France but not UK and it’s all one chart. Thanks for your suggestion though :-)
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    LightHouse or Navionics

    Sorry to jump in on the back of this - I have a similar issue but I had tidal streams and heights showing for the continent but only inactive diamonds for T and C in the UK…. Up to date Lighthouse Western Europe chart on Axiom + Any ideas?
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    Recommendations for heading North

    Thanks - that’s a plan if I can rope in a buddy
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    Recommendations for heading North

    If you were considering a July trip from southern Cornwall to West Coast of Scotland, s/h delivery for a summer family holiday once there, 32 ft sailing yacht…. …how would you break up the passages?
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    Do you dream...

    I do the the exact same dream - what does it mean?
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    Old PLBs

    Thanks - didn’t realise the battery could be replaced doh!
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    Old PLBs

    Picked up a couple of new PLBs at SIBS yesterday. What’s the deal for old ones and disposal? Have some McMurdo Fast Finds that are a few years past their date. Is there a mechanism for deregistering and safe disposal? Not sure about just throwing them in the electrical waste at the tip!
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    Daft thing you've done ---- while sailing / on boat !

    Dried my boat out against the quay to measure the prop shaft a new anode... after successful measuring and refloat realised I could have measured it from the engine bay :rolleyes:
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    eBay - Actisense NGW-1 NMEA 2000 to 0183 gayeway

    For sale on eBay an NMEA 2000 to 0183 converter https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323784995487
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    eBay - Yanmar GM starter handle

    Listed on eBay - starter handle for GM series engine https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323782721620
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    Open CPN, NMEA 2000 and sending waypoints/routes

    My typo - is a NGW1! Think we have a workable solution, problem was my misunderstanding of NMEA 0183 nav data
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    Open CPN, NMEA 2000 and sending waypoints/routes

    That's really helpful. I hadn't realised that rmb and the others contained the actual info I need to convert, I just thought they were simple GPS data.
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    Open CPN, NMEA 2000 and sending waypoints/routes

    When I've planned and activated a route on the laptop in OpenCPN, is it possible to send it out onto the NMEA 2000 bus so that the plotter, MFD and autopilot pick it up? I've played with an Actisense NGT gateway but I can't see that it converts route data
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